[Asterisk-Users] Multiple NICs on Asterisk box

[Zoltan Szecsei]

Dave Cotton wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 16:31 +0200, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
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>>3)  The alias suggestion
>>I did not understand this at the time I received it - Had I noticed 
>>Tzafrir's pointer to the ethernet HOWTO, I would have realised that 
>>alias in this context was not giving an alias to the eth0/1 names. Oops 
>>sorry, again.
>>However, although I discarded this idea originally for the wrong reason, 
>>it still shouldn't (and didn't) solve the problem. If the names eth0 & 
>>eth1 are defined only after the NICs are sensed, then force-loading the 
>>wrong module should not force the interfaces to swop around.
>>I added the 2 alias entries into /etc/modprobe.conf.local and did an 
>>init 6. The darn 3com came up first so nothing was proven (although the 
>>hopes ran higher). I powered down and powered up and luckily the Realtek 
>>came up first - and as eth0. I now expected the 3c59x module to be 
>>forced onto the Realtek interface (due to the alias's), but there were 
>>no boot time or other messages and I could ping the network - but not 
>>authenticate my SW as the 3com NIC was now 2nd in  the que.
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>As the person who put forward the alias solution I can only say either
>you've got some very strange motherboard or Suse has a very strange
>startup routine. Because if the alias solution did not work I'd be in
>very big trouble.
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>I have headless machines running throughout France which must come up
>the same way every time, if not their ADSL connection would be plugged
>into the wrong NIC. I'd have to talk someone who does not know an rj45
>from a carrot through changing over cables and that's after I found
>someone who would open the cabinet.
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Hi Dave,
I smile at the description of your remote users's capabilities. You are 
not alone :-)

I've had this HW running successfully on SuSE SLES8, 9.1 and 9.2
It is only since 9.3 that this intermittent swopping story is an issue. 
I posted a similar question about this on SuSE lists, but it got 
ignored. Interesting that no one from Novell chooses to respond to, or 
notice the post.

Cheers

Zoltan

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